"I've seen that logo before—somewhere.” That phrase has been stuck in my head lately. It keeps circling back whenever I'm in a store, scrolling through a site, or reviewing a brand deck from a startup.

In 1933, Albert Einstein famously said, “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” I heard that quote again recently on a trip to Brooklyn, and it stuck with me — especially in the context of modern logo design.

OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT image engine just dropped, and the creative world is buzzing. Some folks are lighting candles in celebration, others are grabbing torches like it’s the end times. You’ve got designers and ad folks clutching their pearls, dismissing it as “glitter on garbage,” while a different camp is calling it the future. Both sides are missing the real story.

When my dad, Al Ries, wrote “Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind” in 1981, he overlooked one important idea. The visual.

We’ve all done it. We pick up or click on some ‘thing’ at some store and consider a purchase solely on the packaging, slick product design,

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